Luke, Leia and another Jedi (alien in nature) in a small ship approach a remote location in the outer rim.
The ship lands in a desolate area where he finds several force sensitive beings. He informs them why they he is there and brings them up to speed on current events. Luke invites them back to Yavin and begin jedi training.

A space ship of some sort (hopefully the Falcon) will fly from lower left corner of the screen, directly thru to the upper right, before docking onto a larger ship. The question is, will we see the top of the ship, or the bottom?

A space ship of some sort (hopefully the Falcon) will fly from lower left corner of the screen, directly thru to the upper right, before docking onto a larger ship. The question is, will we see the top of the ship, or the bottom?

Vast, empty space - then slowly, the BIG YELLOW WORDS OF EXPOSITION starting with "Episode VII" start crawling up from the bottom of the screen, then the nerdgasm starts... 10 minutes later, there are either cries of jubilation or gasps of horror from the audience...

Camera pans down to reveal a funeral pyre in the woods with a young man in black standing before it. Then, there is a wipe to reveal a familiar sleeping farm boy.
It was all a dream. He gets up and says, "it just isn't fair." He then grabs his sun hat and goes outside to start his chores and gazes at the sky with his macrobinoculars. He sees what looks like a space battle, and then a man's voice is heard calling his name, "Luke, stop stargazing and come help me with these condensers." He turns to see an older man with a woman, who then says to him, "oh Anakin, don't be so hard on the boy. He hasn't even had breakfast yet. Now son, go downstairs and have one of your sister's biscuits before your uncle wakes up and eats them all." Luke hands the macrobinoculars to her and explains he thinks he was watching a battle before going back into the homestead. Anakin asks, "what do you see, Padme?" and she lowers the macrobinoculars to say, "Our lives catching up with us."

For a slight variation... while holding to the grand tradition... I wouldn't mind at all if the opening crawl gives way to the traditional black landscape of space littered with stars... only to have the entire spacescape get distorted as we see that it was a relfection of space on the surface of some body of water and whatever ships enter screen are of the nautical variety breaking waves over the reflection. Nice way to jump into a completely different sort of action without losing the traditional opening shot of space.

The Camera pans up and we catch a lens flare from a distant blue-white star. An angular ship that looks to be like a mix of Imperial and Mon Calamari design slowly rumbles overhead, the Millenium Falcon roars from it's hangar bay flanked by starfighters..

For a slight variation... while holding to the grand tradition... I wouldn't mind at all if the opening crawl gives way to the traditional black landscape of space littered with stars... only to have the entire spacescape get distorted as we see that it was a relfection of space on the surface of some body of water and whatever ships enter screen are of the nautical variety breaking waves over the reflection. Nice way to jump into a completely different sort of action without losing the traditional opening shot of space.

I've long imagined an opening where the camera pulls back to reveal the window of a ship and someone looking out of it.
Oddly enough, after being inspired by STAR WARS to do Star Trek, Abrams is challenged to open the film in a way that doesn't look similar, so we might not get a ship encountering another ship/disturbance followed by a battle.
Jeez I'm so eager for this.